What’s in a (Musical) Name?

Because my husband is a drummer. Because I was a singer. Because we met playing music. Because his drums echoed in my heartbeat. Because we danced in the living room to a slow rhythm and we fell in love. Because timing can sometimes be off. Because he wrote me love poems with lovely rhythms. Because we were two complimentary beats, out of step till we found each other. Because his rhythm completed mine. Because together, we make a new song. Because together we made a new song. Click through to see his name and read about it’s meaning…

Ca·dence[kay-dns] noun
1. Rhythmic flow of a sequence of sounds or words
2. Timing of events on a human scale; of musical sounds and silences, of the steps of a dance, or the metre of spoken language and poetry

Together we made a new song. And that song has his own rhythm, somewhat like our own. Not unlike an echo. He makes musical sounds in between the silences. His heartbeat is the combination of ours. And he is the little rhythm our lives now dance to. Our Cadence.

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